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- Title
ASSERTING THE RIGHT TO LIFE -- A CHALLENGE TO MEDICAL GUIDANCE ON WITHDRAWING TREATMENT.
- Authors
Levy, Sharon
- Abstract
This paper analyses the English High Court decision of R (on the application of Burke) v General Medical Council land considers its implications for the future. Mr. Burke, relying on common law and the European Convention on Human Rights, succeeded in a challenge to the General Medical Council's Guidance on Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Treatment. He asserted his right to choose to be given treatment so as to live and condemned the Guidance as centred on the right to refuse treatment.).
- Subjects
LEGAL judgments; COMMON law; HUMAN rights; PATIENT refusal of treatment; MEDICAL laws
- Publication
Medicine & Law (World Association for Medical Law), 2005, Vol 24, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0723-1393
- Publication type
Article